[pp.int.general] Fwd: [A2k] EU online consultation re access to creativity (deadline October 9)

[Amelia Andersdotter]

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Manon Ress <manon.ress at keionline.org>
Date: 2009/10/3
Subject: [A2k] EU online consultation re access to creativity
(deadline October 9)
To: a2k discuss list <a2k at lists.essential.org>


The EU commission is currently holding a consultation (among 100?)
about the Post-i2010 priorities for new strategy for European
information society (2010-2015). Deadline to fill the online
questionaire is October 9.

It is really really broad but Section 6 (cut and paste below) is
focusing on access to creativity and might be of interest to you.
Some questions are multiple choice, others are open ended and you do
not have to answer all of them!

http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=posti2010

Online questions:

SNIP

6) Promoting access to creativity at all levels

A - Affirming users' rights in the participative web

6.1. How can users be empowered through transparent information? -
multiple choices reply- (optional)
Warrant new forms of transparency obligations for standard terms and
conditions imposed by web 2.0 services to ensure that end-users are
aware and understand their rights and obligations
Reshape privacy rules to guarantee that users have access and can
effectively control over their personal data stored online
Promote self-regulation
Adopt stricter measures aimed at protecting minors in the social
networking web
Others

6.2. How can creativity be stimulated by building EU-wide easily
accessible mechanism to allow users to clear rights and be free to
work on existing content for non-commercial purposes? -multiple
choices reply- (optional)
Ease the complexity of copyright management
Establish a rights clearance database to facilitate creation and
distribution of content online
Make copyright law more flexible as regards non-commercial uses
Promote alternative open licensing schemes
Others

6.2.1. Please give examples: -open reply- (optional)

6.3. A "fair" non-commercial use of licensed content should be free of
technological restrictions in terms of interoperability. Should
interoperability of content be left to the market or should users have
a clear statutory right to play the content they paid for anytime,
anywhere and on any platform? -single choice reply- (optional)
Market
Statutory right

B - Ensuring sustainable copyright
6.4. How could the EU assist the creative industries in shifting
towards more sustainable business models? -open reply- (optional)
C - Making digital content overcome borders across the EU
6.5. What would facilitate the emergence of business models not based
on territorial copyrights? -open reply- (optional)
D - Development of ICT sector and of European content industry to
reinforce each other
6.6. How can we contribute to ensuring that the European content
industry is able to meet the demands of audiences for a diverse
digital content offering? -open reply- (optional)
6.7. Considering that a growing number of countries worldwide share
Europe' approach regarding the need to actively promote online
creative content and digital creative industries, how can we initiate
or reinforce synergies with these like-minded countries in order to
improve our competitiveness in this sector? -open reply- (optional)

E - Digitisation of cultural resources
6.8. Which of the following issues are the most important to improve
the digitisation of cultural resources and their enjoyment by users?
(choose maximum 3) -multiple choices reply- (optional)
Adapting copyright legislation
Increasing funding, also through public-private partnerships
Providing large-scale digitisation facilities
Improving access to content, by encouraging digitisation at national
and local level
Facilitating rights clearance for in-copyright material, orphan works
and works out of print or distribution
Providing multilingual search and retrieval
Making sure that digitisation of cultural resources is not left only
in the hands of private partners
Others

F - Steps to open access to content to people with disabilities
6.9. For persons with disabilities, accessing cultural resources is
not always possible as their right of access is often in conflict with
copyrights. What can be done to ensure equal access to content for
persons with disabilities? -multiple choices reply- (optional)
The exception foreseen in the Copyright Directive for ensuring access
by persons with disabilities should be stronger
The right of access of persons with disabilities should prevail over
the rights of the owner of the content
Other


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Manon Ress
manon.ress at keionline.org
Knowledge Ecology International
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel.:  +1.202.332.2670, Fax: +1.202.332.2673






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